How to pass more than 9 parameters to batch file

Question

How can I pass more than nine parameters to bach file.
I tried another SO question How do you utilize more than 9 arguments when calling a label in a CMD batch-script? but not working for me.

I am trying to give the runtime values of a url kept inside batch.
My batch:

start iexplore http://example.com?firstName=%1^&middleName=%2^&lastName=%3^&country=%4^&address=%5^&address2=%6^&address3=%7^&mobileNo=%8^&landlineNo=%9SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT ^&emailAddress=%1^&hobby1=%2^&hobby2=%3^&hobby3=%4^&hobby4=%5^&hobby5=%6

When using It is taking the previous values of %1, %2, %3,.....etc and the values of 10th,11th,12th.... parameters

Please help !

Answer 1

Here's an even easier solution that assumes you merely want to pass the values to another program. This example allows passing up to 27 parameters to zip...

@echo OFF
set ZipArgs=%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
for /L %%i in (0,1,8) do @shift
set ZipArgs=%ZipArgs% %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
for /L %%i in (0,1,8) do @shift
set ZipArgs=%ZipArgs% %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
"C:\Program Files\WinZip\wzzip.exe" %ZipArgs%

The first line merely turns off echoing each line to the screen. The lines that start with set ZipArgs build the environment variable ZipArgs with the next 9 parameters from the command line. The "for" lines use the SHIFT command to discard the first 9 parameters bringing the next 9 "up front". The last line executes zip passing to it the assembled parameter values.

You could complicate things by adding code to check for the number of parameters on the command line and act appropriately, but this does the trick just fine for me.

Answer 2

You can use the shift command which shifts the arguments back 1 step, for example %9 would be stored in %8 and %8 would be stored in %7 etc, so if that happened there would be room for a 10^th argument in the 9^th argument if that makes sense, here is an example:

@echo off
set arg1=%~1
set arg2=%~2
set arg3=%~3
set arg4=%~4
set arg5=%~5
set arg6=%~6
set arg7=%~7
set arg8=%~8
set arg9=%~9
shift
set arg10=%~9
shift
set arg11=%~9
shift
set arg12=%~9

and instead of using %~1 use %arg1% etc, and to use the 10^th, 11^th, 12^th argument you will use %arg10%, %arg11%, %arg12%.